Jane Colston

Practice Areas

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Career

Jane Colston is co-practice group leader of the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group in London. Her practice focuses on complex and high-value commercial banking, contract and tort disputes as well as company, shareholders and partnership disputes. Jane has acted in numerous complex fraud cases and has extensive experience of forensic investigations, most of which have involved working with teams of investigators and accountants, and coordinating lawyers in multiple jurisdictions to trace and freeze assets. She has managed numerous cases involving freezing, proprietary, search, disclosure, gagging, imaging and delivery up injunctions as well as breach of confidence and privacy claims. Jane is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

A significant part of Jane’s practice involves brand and reputation protection for, among others, high-profile individuals, global companies and sovereign states. She has acted in numerous high-stakes, headline-grabbing cases involving millions to billions of pounds, euros and dollars, including international, high-net-worth divorce proceedings, wherein the personal and business reputations, as well as privacy, of those involved were of paramount concern. Clients turn to Jane for sound practical advice on legal and risk management because of her deep technical knowledge and real hands-on experience running cases successfully.

Publications

Editor, "Law Over Borders Comparative Guide to Mediation," Global Legal Post (May 2025)

Co-author, "Mediation, AI, Technology and Access to Justice in the Modern World of Dispute Resolution," Financier Worldwide (May 2024)

Co-author, "U.K. Cryptoassets Law Over Borders Comparative Guide," The Global Legal Post (April 2024)

Co-author, "The English courts and international asset tracing," CDR Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery 2024 (April 9, 2024)

"A Letter from One of Our Judges," ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Starters Magazine (February 2024)

"The International Law Book Facility Essay Competition 2023," ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine Issue 14 (September 2023)

Co-author, “Beware Of The Dao: What “breed” Is It And When Might Liability Bite?" The Legal 500 Comparative Guide: Blockchain (November 2022)

Co-author, "Tracing and recovering cryptoassets: A UK perspective," Global Legal Insights Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation 2023 (October 27, 2022)

Co-author, "Making a Difference – The Digital Assets Consultation Paper," Brown Rudnick Alert (August 3, 2022)

"Thought Leaders 4 Women Who Inspire - International Women's Day 2022," TL4FIRE (March 30, 2022)

"What’s diversity got to do with the rule of law?" Solicitors Journal (January 31, 2022)

“Why do English legal texts matter in developing countries?” The Law Society Gazette (December 8, 2021)

Co-author, "Tracing and recovering cryptoassets: A UK perspective," Global Legal Insights Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation, Fourth Edition (October 2021)

Co-author, "Digital Fraud Trends,” Chambers & Partners (September 2021)

Co-author, "Fraud: An introduction to UK-wide search, imaging and doorstep delivery-up orders in the time of COVID-19," Chambers & Partners (May 2021)

"Team Diversity: Avoiding an Echo Chamber," Solicitors Journal (May 2021)

"Diversity Series: Tackling Impostor Syndrome," IBA Diversity Series (November 2020)

Co-author, "Be inspired!" IBA International Litigation Newsletter (May 2020)

Co-author, "Yes we can: Remote justice in England and Wales – the new norm?," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (May 2020)

"Diversity series: What are you doing to promote diversity?," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (May 2020)

Co-author, "To Zoom Or Not To Zoom, That Is The Question: Mediations in the Time of COVID-19 - Update," Brown Rudnick Alert (April 9, 2020)

Co-author, "The New Normal: Mediations in the Time of COVID-19," Brown Rudnick Alert (April 6, 2020)

Co-author, “‘Walls Have Ears’ (Even Virtual Ones)? Confidentiality and Cyber Security When Working Remotely,” Brown Rudnick Alert (April 6, 2020)

"Surveillance capitalism," Legal Business Disputes Yearbook 2020 (March 2020)

Co-author, "Uncovering Fraud: First Response," Financier Worldwide Magazine (December 2019)

Co-author, "IBA Litigation Newsletter Editors’ Note," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (September 2019)

Co-author, "Commercial Fraud Litigation – London Pow-wow, June 2019," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (September 2019)

Co-author, "The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology in Global Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practices," INSOL International (July 2019)

Co-author, roundtable, "Views from the Top," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (May 2019)

Featured, "Celebrating International Women's Day & the First 100 Years with Jane Colston," Harneys Blog (March 2019)

"Tech-driven review vs the fear of missing out," Legal Business Disputes Yearbook 2019 (May 2019)

Co-author, "IBA Litigation Newsletter Editors’ Note," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (October 2018)

Co-author, "Bang for your buck - FAQs, myths and truths regarding Norwich Pharmacal orders," IBA International Litigation Newsletter (May 2018)

Co-author, mini-roundtable, "Technology Forensics in Fraud Investigations and Disputes," Corporate Disputes Magazine (April-June 2018)

"Hodl, Hit the moon, Lambo, Miners," Legal Business Disputes Yearbook 2018 (May 2018)